Word: homerun
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...matters of rare importance keep him from a lecture. One of those rare matters occurred some few years ago. Three fearful, truant students beheld him at a baseball game between the Pittsburgh (his home town) Pirates and the New York Giants, waving his hat when Honus Wagner made a homerun...
...Next day the Cubs won the second game of the series 9 to 8 in the 13th inning, after scoring 5 runs in the ninth to tie, 5-5, pulling even again 8-8 in the nth. In the third game burly Hack Wilson, Cub centrefielder, drove his 45th homerun of the season in the first inning with two men on base and his 46th in the fourth. That put him two homers ahead of the National League record, and two ahead of Babe Ruth of the American League. The Cubs won, 16 to 4, stayed .051 points ahead...
...also probable that the average spectator at a ball game enjoys plenty of hitting and is bored by the old-fashioned "pitchers' battle." No one has ever yet booed a homerun and certainly the greatest crowd-getter in recent years has been Homerunner Ruth. The question raised against the "lively" ball seems only to be whether homeruns may not become too common. In a Brooklyn-Pittsburgh encounter lately, nine homeruns were hit in one afternoon...
...Chapel Hill, N. C,, one Harry M. Sinclair,* baseball fielder, ran to retrieve a homerun. As he leaned to pick up the ball from a tuft of grass a small brown snake, of unknown breed, peeked up at him and bit him severely in the hand...
Howard stemmed the tide for an inning or so, but in the fifth, Notre Dame got on to his delivery with a devastating vengence. Every kind of hit, from a single to a homerun, came off the bats of the hard-hitting sluggers from Indiana. Howard Whitmore '29, the next Crimson twirler to see action, replaced Howard. He allowed only three hits in the last half of the game, although two more runs swelled the Notre Dame total...